Monday, November 30, 2015

It gives us immense pleasure in appreciating you for your valuable research work focusing on new trends of technology.

Your publication entitled “Introducing W.A.T.E.R.S.: a Workflow for the Alignment, Taxonomy, and Ecology of Ribosomal Sequences” is very informative and will be a great source for the scientific community.

Journal of Biometrics and Its Applications (JBIA) is a peer reviewed, open access journal which is ardent to promote and erudite research in the fields of Biometrics, Statistical Analysis, Biostatistics, Computer vision.

We cordially invite you to submit your valuable research work for publication in JBIA. It will be a great honor for us to be a part in the exploration of your research to the world and we believe that your contribution will be helpful in the growth of our journal.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Autoimmune and Infectious Diseases: Open Access is an open access peer reviewed journal presents the advances and role of Autoimmunity. Journal is an open source the researchers, clinicians and academicians and provides a common platform to exchange and update the current knowledge.

We are glad to invite you as an Editorial Board Member for the journal. We strongly believe that you are one of the well known researchers in the field of “Autoimmunity”, hope your contribution and unmatched experience will help the journal to add more advantages and get international reputation as well.

Please let us know your willingness by sending us your CV, Biography, research interest and photograph to update our website.

Monday, November 23, 2015

Pubmed is to ease de-collaboration (when one stops working with a collaborator) woes by tweaking its 'Collaboration Status' function – allowing ex-collaborators to disappear from view without users removing them as a colleague.

The literature network will trial the new collaborator tool in the United States, with plans to roll out the changes worldwide after receiving feedback.

David Lippmann, product manager for Pubmed, said in a statement: “Starting today, we are testing tools to help researchers manage how they interact with their former collaborators on Pubmed after their collaboration has ended. When researchers change their collaboration status to indicate they are no longer in a collaboration, they will be prompted to try these tools.

“The work is part of our ongoing effort to develop resources for scholars who may be going through difficult moments in their lives. We hope these tools will help people end collaborations on Pubmed with greater ease, comfort and sense of control.”

The tools will allow users to limit the papers, data sets or status updates that an ex-collaborator will see. Without having to de-collaborate or block a former research partner, Pubmed will also make sure their name and ORCID ID do not appear in the site's paper feed.

Their name will not be suggested either when users tag researchers in papers.

Users will also be able to edit who can see past papers with a former collaborator and untag from papers written with that person.

The purpose of this letter is to inviteyou to be as a Speaker for the upcoming 6thInternational Conference & Expo on Proteomics during March 29-31, 2016 Atlanta, USA.

The aim to deliver a global platform to share knowledge and expertise with the scientific community on the advancements in the field of Proteomics. The conference anticipates leading worldwide researchers, scientists, academic scientists, industry researchers, scholars, decision makers and other professionals from across the globe.

The theme of the conference is Revealing The Novel Innovation of Life Science, To Meet EmergingChallenges.

Benefits:

1.Personal interaction with the Organizing Committee Members, Keynote speakers and other eminent personalities for our future course of work.

2.Opportunity to conduct workshop/symposium with your team and colleagues based on your research expertise.

Some confirmed speakers for World Proteomics 2016:

Steven Pelech, President of Kinexus Bioinformatics Corp, Canada.

Krishna Dronamraju, President of Foundation for Genetic Research, USA.

On behalf of the Conference Chairs and Committees, it is my great pleasure to invite you to deliver an invited talk at the EMN Meeting on Membranes, which will be held in Novotel World Trade Centre Hotel,Dubai-United Arab Emirates, onApril05-08th, 2016.

The main purpose of EMN Membranes Meeting is to describe and discuss the newadvancement in Membranes Technology with its well-recognized and promising applications. We hope to bring together leading scientists, researchers, scholars and engineers from academia, R&D laboratories and industry around the world to exchange, share and learn the most interesting work done recently.

The workshops emphasis on promising aspects of Membrane usage are as follows: Bio absorbable Nano fiber Membranes, Membranes for Energy Conversion such as Fuel Cell, Gas Separation, Membrane Assembly and Translocation, Osmosis and Nano filtration Membranes, Membranes for Computing, Proton Exchange Membranes, Power Generation by Pressure Retarded Osmosis, Membranes for Environmental Protection and Membranes for Process Intensification and General in this broad field.

I do hope you can make time in your busy schedule to act as an invited speaker share your ideas on this topic. Your experience and comments will add an important dimension to what’s potentially a very important discussion for the field.

Please directly reply this email with your contact information, a tentative title of your invited presentation and which workshop is more appropriate for you or you can recommend other workshop for your talk if you could accept our invitation.

We are looking forward to hear from you and it will certainly be our pleasure and honor to see you in Dubai soon. Thanks!

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Got this in the intertubes this morning. Sorry - not planning to submit there.

Dear Jonathan A Eisen,

Hope you are doing well.

We, Bio Accent open access publishers came newly into publishing sector to provide a platform to the researchers, practitioners, students and professionals from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field of Microbiology.

We have found your profile from your institute; it seems you are a very good expert in Microbiology. We don’t want to miss your appreciable work so, we are inviting you for manuscript submission in BAOJ Microbiology.

We request you to let us know if you have any kind of research work to publish with us and please let me know your tentative date of manuscript submission.

We are expecting huge support from your side, so it will help us to get indexed & impact factor soon.

I confess, I was intrigued enough to look because it was in Bilbao, and, well, my kids are completely obsessed with soccer and we are thinking of a trip to Barcelona, so why not a trip to Bilbao too. And then, well, I got sick to my stomach. I looked at the list of speakers and instructors and did a bunch of Googling to make inferences about their gender. And, well, everyone associated with the School appears to be male. That is 24 or 24 slots (4 keynote speaker slots and 20 professor slots. See below for the rundown. People I identified as male are highlighted in yellow. Sad and disappointing. Needless to say I will not be going.

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Real and perceived conflicts of interest are a critically important topic in scholarly activities that I believe has not received enough attention from the scientific community. Right now, disclosures of possible conflicts of interest are handled incredibly very unevenly and poorly by academia and industry and government. Even when people do the right thing and make detailed disclosures, such information is hard to find and ephemeral. There are many things that the community could do to improve the ability to find such information.

One simple step that I believe could be useful would be to link disclosures to universal scholar ID systems. Although there are multiple UID systems for scholars, right now the UID of choice appears to be ORCID. ORCID currently allows scholars to compile information about their education, employment, funding and scholarly works.

I therefore propose that ORCID add a new category: DISCLOSURES. What would be included here? Well, I don't know exactly but would include things like board membership, stock in companies, funding not listed elsewhere, any other significant relationship with a group, and more. Sure this could get messy. But I think we need to do more to make it easier to share and find information that could be a actual or potential conflict of interest.

Something like this:

If anyone knows of other tools for doing this I would love to hear about them.

Monday, November 02, 2015

Got this SPAMMY invite in the emails. Given that I work neither on Immunology or Immunotherapy this seems, well, SPAMMY.

Dear Dr. Jonathan Eisen,

The Journal of Immunology & Immunotherapy welcomes you!

Henry Publishing Group introduces you the Journal of Immunology & Immunotherapy. The journal is newly launched with an open access initiative to serve the scientific community globally. We welcome eminent scientific personalities, who are expertise in this field as editors to form the editorial board.

Based on your expertise and contributions in this field, we request you to associate with us as an editor. We would be happy if you could serve as an editor and help us for the growth and development of the journal.

We are awaiting for your response regarding your opinion towards the position. If you are interested, please mail us your acceptance along with an updated CV, summary of research expertise and biography at immunology@henrypublishinggroup.org

Please let us know if you have any queries regarding this. I look forward to hear from you soon.

Hope to associate with you a long lasting and scientific relationship with you

Sunday, November 01, 2015

We introduce ourselves asARC Publications PVT LTD(Academician’s Research Center) is a premier international, open access, publisher with Hyderabad, India as its head quarters diffusing across the globe covering European, Western and Asian nations. Our primary objective is to publish quality research that undergoes a thorough scrutiny process while giving creative freedom to the researcher.

This is to bring to your kind notice that we are in the process of recruiting eminent people as Editorial Board Members for our ARC Journals of Immunology and Vaccines (AJIV). It is an Open Access, Academic, Peer-reviewed, quality journal that publishes unbiased original research in the field of Immunology and Vaccination. We cordially invite you to take the role as Editorial Board Member to be part of our Journal.

We would request you to submit a manuscript or a two page Editorial article to encourage our journal as we would like to release our first issue with our Journal Editorial Board Member’s articles. We request you to invite your colleagues/ Expertises/ Students to publish your the scientific/ research work with us.

Kindly send us your Resume, Bio data and Photograph for our Editorial office purpose. Your Resumes and Manuscripts could be submitted at editor_ajiv@arcjournals.org.